To meet you comin’ home.

“Now jus’ I want you kiss me

Afore you goes away,

’Cause maybe you might miss me—

Bein’ to church all day.

Now I’m ‘your little mices,’

To creep up on your knee;

’F you’ll kiss me all five twices,

Why—then—I’ll—let you be.”[12]

So climbs “my little mices”